" With that she stood up."I'm going to go check on Billy," she said. Then I was alone in the living room.What the fuck? I'd reached out to Tamara for ...upport and sympathy and she'd all but slapped me in the face! Hey, I'd tried to talk to those women!Yeah, right. Hadn't I just admitted that I hadn't really tried?I ground my fingers into my thigh, and began balling my hands into fists and then noticing it and releasing them. I was still stewing when Billy ran into the room."John! John! Let's go. The rest of the group unanimously looked towards Sharon. ‘Go on Sharon, you suggested it, you dish out the dares’ one of the Sarah said a sly smile on her face. ‘Jane. Starting with Sarah, and proceeding clockwise each round, you are to kiss them full on, for the duration of the round whenever that person is not having to play.’ The shock around the table was evident. No one expected something quite like this, but Jane merely stood up, walked over to Sarah and started to kiss her. For a moment. It’s all fight.’‘How do you know…’‘And then,’ he continued, ignoring her interruption. ‘Pushed down, suppressed, right at the back of your mind is a nagging, persistent doubt that after all this time, all of the hype, this scenario might not live up to the very high expectations of the fantasy we both have.’‘That’s right,’ she breathed, nodding her head in disbelief.‘But that’s something that you should never concern yourself with. Just from our kiss earlier, I was ready to bet my life on the. We made different friends, and our lives went down different paths over the next few years. Eventually we barely talked at all.A couple of years later, when we were both fifteen, we happened to be at the same party with a mutual friend whose parents were out of town. As it happens at these high school parties, everybody seemed to be paring-off for private make out sessions in bedrooms, chairs, couches, and closets. There was even one couple on rug on the bathroom floor. Some were already.